Volcanic eruptions are right up there with hurricanes and earthquakes on the list of nature’s most formidable catastrophes. The April...
Research and Trends News
The U.S. Deepwater Horizon and Venezuelan Aban Pearl drilling rig losses have left upstream energy insurers with an unprecedented bill...
Guy Carpenter, Marsh’s reinsurance brokerage and risk assessment division, has published “Terrorism: Reinsurers Standing By.” It concludes that “insurers and...
In conjunction with the release of the latest version of its “Terrorism Threat Map,” Aon’s Crisis Management division analyzes the...
Reinsurers have bumped up prices for offshore energy-related insurance premiums by 50 percent following insurance industry losses of up to...
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said Wednesday as they predicted...
The number of hail loss claims filed with insurers increased by 61 percent, from 256,000 in 2006 to over 413,000...
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released a report that examines the implications of the Gulf oil spill on...
Reinsurance pricing at the June 1, 2010 Florida renewal are down by 10 percent to 12 percent on average, on...
Hurricanes could rupture underwater oil and natural gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, which is already struggling with the...